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> abstraction is little more than structured copy+paste

Which perhaps is logical, since Forth is a concatenative language. Roughly, one can split a program in half at any point and get two subprograms which can be called one after the other - in the same order - to get the same result.

Like, to calculate 2 + 3 * 4 one would write 2 3 4 * + in Forth, this sequence can be split in two 6 different ways, and we can even meaningfully interpret those two parts each time. E.g. part 4 * + is a two-argument function which multiplies first (closest to the top in the stack) by 4 and sums the result with the other argument - in JavaScript it would be function(x, y) { return 4*x+y; }.



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